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 PUBLIC LAW 101-167—NOV. 21, 1989 103 STAT. 1263 (e) PERIOD OF APPLICATION.— Effective dates. (1) Subsections (a) and (b) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall only apply to applications for refugee status submitted before October 1, 1990. (2) Subsection (c) shall apply to decisions made after the date of the enactment of this Act and before October 1, 1990. (3) Subsection (d) shall take effect on the date of the enact- ment of this Act and shall only apply to reapplications for refugee status submitted before October 1, 1990. (f) GAO REPORTS ON SOVIET REFUGEE PROCESSING.— (1) The Comptroller General shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and of the House of Representa- tives reports on the implementation of this section in Italy and the Soviet Union. Such reports shall include a review of— (A) the timeliness and length of individual interviews, (B) the adequacy of staffing and funding by the Depart- ment of State, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and voluntary agencies, including the adequacy of staffing, computerization, and administration of the processing center in Washington, (C) the sufficiency of the proposed Soviet refugee process- ing system within the United States, (D) backlogs (if any) by ethnic or religious groups and the reasons any such backlogs exist, (E) the sufficiency of the mesms of distributing and receiv- ing applications for refugee status in Moscow, (F) to the extent possible, a comparison of the cost of conducting refugee processing only in Moscow and such cost of processing in both Moscow and in Italy, and (G) an evaluation of efforts to phase out Soviet refugee processing in Italy. (2) The Comptroller shall submit a preliminary report under paragraph (1) by December 31, 1989, and a final report by March 31, 1990. The final report shall include any recommenda- tions which the Comptroller General may have regarding the need, if any, to revise or extend the application of this section. ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FOR CERTAIN SOVIET AND INDOCHINESE PAROLEES SEC. 599E. (a) IN GENERAL.— The Attorney General shall adjust 8 USC 1255 note. the status of an alien described in subsection Os) to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence if the alien— (1) applies for such adjustment, (2) has been physically present in the United States for at least 1 year and is physically present in the United States on the date the application for such adjustment is filed, (3) is admissible to the United States as an immigrant, except as provided in subsection (c), and (4) pays a fee (determined by the Attorney General) for the processing of such application. 0)) AuENS EuGiBLE FOR ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS.—The benefits provided in subsection (a) shall only apply to an alien who— (1) was a national of the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia, and

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